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Picasso portraits of his lovers fetch £42m

22.06.11
Three portraits by Picasso of his lovers - including one cut from its frame by a burglar and patched with brown tape - netted a total of more than £42million at a London auction... more

Five centuries of masterpieces to be revealed

13.06.11
Five hundred years of masterpieces including treasures by Michelangelo, Gainsborough and Picasso not seen in public for decades are to go on show in London ... more

Andrew Lloyd Webber gives cash from Picasso sale to good causes

20.05.11
Composer and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber begins handing out to good causes millions of pounds made from the sale of a painting by Pablo Picasso ... more

Joan Miró is graffiti for grown ups

05.05.11
For some, Miró is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century - but although he had a feeling for colour he could not paint or draw and his symbols are signs of arrested development... more

Picasso to make a healthy profit for university

27.04.11
This portrait of Pablo Picasso's lover Marie-Thérèse Walter is set to fetch up to £12 million and help fund research into obesity... more

$100 million Picasso on display at Tate Modern

07.03.11
The most expensive painting ever sold at auction is going on show at Tate Modern on London's South Bank... more

Picasso portrait of his lover sells for double its estimate at £25m

09.02.11
Painting by Pablo Picasso of his secret teenage lover has sold for £25.2million at auction... more

Picasso's happy period makes for a great show

17.06.10
The carefree paintings, sculptures and drawings from the Picasso's years on the French Riviera make for the most exciting and enjoyable show of the summer.... more

The art of making money

17.06.10
As Christie’s auction house prepares for what could be a record-breaking sale, Anthony Gardner takes a look behind the scenes.... more

Masterpieces by Picasso and Van Gogh on display at Christie's

14.06.10
Paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and Rubens went on display in London in an exhibition of highlights from 'the richest and most exciting' summer art auction season in a generation... more

£430 million art stolen from Paris museum in ‘heist of the century’

20.05.10
Masterpieces worth up to £430 million, including works by Picasso and Matisse, have been stolen during an audacious dawn raid on a Paris museum... more

Picasso wife worth less than mistress

06.05.10
A Picasso painting of his wife has sold for £6.1 million only a day after a portrait of his mistress sold for more than £70 million... more

A work of pure genius created in a single day

05.05.10
Picasso was one of the few artists in history who could create a masterpiece in a day, as he did with Nude, Green Leaves And Bust... more

Picasso’s £70m mistress masterpiece smashes art auction world record

05.05.10
Picasso painting of one of his mistresses today sold for £70.3million - a world record price for any artwork sold at auction... more

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Picasso could fetch £40m after ownership dispute is settled

17.03.10
Andrew Lloyd Webber is finally to sell a Pablo Picasso masterpiece four years after it was withdrawn from auction in an ownership dispute... more

‘Hidden’ portrait by Picasso fetches £8 million

03.02.10
Portrait by Pablo Picasso of his second wife and major muse Jacqueline Roque sells for £8.1 million in another successful London auction... more

Picasso painting The Actor torn by visitor in New York gallery

25.01.10
Picasso painting suffers a six-inch tear when a visitor to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art falls against it during an art class... more

Picasso's two musketeers: One for almost £7m and all for £15m

18.06.09
Two paintings by Pablo Picasso created on successive days will be sold by rival auction houses for a total upper estimate of £15million this month... more

The glove that changed Guernica

08.05.09
In 1937, the blitzing of a Spanish town prompted Picasso to begin work on a vast painting – but one poignant item gave his masterpiece its final form.... more

£9.8m Picasso gives art market a shot in the arm

07.05.09
A victim of disgraced Wall Street financier Bernie Madoff sold his Picasso painting for nearly £10million at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art auction in New York, helping to revive the ailing art market... more

Picasso painting Guernica back in Whitechapel

23.03.09
A copy of Picasso's anti-war painting Guernica which is normally on show at the United Nations in New York is being installed at the Whitechapel Gallery... more

Poor Picasso

27.02.09
Picasso is not served well by the National Gallery's new show but there are enough thrilling pictures to make it worthwhile.... more

Exhibition to show how Picasso pilfered the classics

04.12.08
The National Gallery is to host a major Picasso exhibition in the New Year, it has emerged ... more

Whitechapel Gallery set for £13.5m revival

18.11.08
The Whitechapel Gallery will turn to its pioneering past when it re-opens after a £13.5million expansion next year... more

Oh! What a lovely Cold War exhibition

19.09.08
Art and design, displayed with coherence and humour, throw new light on a dark era for the Cold War Modern: Design exhibition.... more

Red light at the National

16.09.08
An entire room at the National Gallery is to be transformed into a scene from Amsterdam's red-light district... more

Iron curtain masterpieces at the Royal Academy

22.10.07
Modern masterpieces from Russia's greatest museums including one of Henri Matisse's most famous works are to go on show in London.... more

Picasso's drunken doodle fetches £250,000

02.04.07
The only mural to be produced by Pablo Picasso in England is to become the centrepiece at a new London gallery.... more

Nazi claim halts sale of Lloyd Webber's Picasso

09.11.06
As the £30 million Absinthe Drinker is withdrawn from auction at the last minute, we reveal a secret deal over another masterpiece looted by the Germans during the war.... more

$30m for paintings in bumper art sale

08.11.06
Two artworks have each sold for more than $30 million at the biggest Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and modern art in 16 years. The sale in New York made a total of $238 million. ... more


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